Despite the importance of preventing chronic kidney disease (CKD), predicting high-risk patients who require active intervention is challenging, especially in people with preserved kidney function. In this study, a predictive risk score for CKD…
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Background: Interest in quitting smoking is common among young adults who smoke, but it can prove challenging. Although evidence-based smoking cessation interventions exist and are effective, a lack of access to these interventions specifically…
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The following is a guest article by Moliehi “Mo” Weitnauer, Chief Product Officer at MRO
Providers are witnessing an explosion in health plan requests for medical records. In some regions, request volumes are up by…
Leading cybersecurity agencies, including CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC, along with international partners, have issued recommendations to protect healthcare and critical infrastructure networks from the LockBit ransomware threat. LockBit is a highly aggressive strain targeting…
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by Jasmine Pennic 06/14/2023 Leave a Comment
What You Should Know:
Medigate by Claroty announced its strategic partnership with medical technology company, Siemens Healthineers to protect healthcare enterprises from malicious cyberattacks. Through a combination of software, managed…
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The American Medical Association’s House of Delegates considers a resolution that would urge doctors to educate patients about the risk of large language models. It also directs AMA to work with the federal government…
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A plethora of classification models for the detection of glaucoma from fundus images have been proposed in recent years. Often trained with data from a single glaucoma clinic, they report impressive performance on internal…
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UK-based digital health tech company Huma has received FDA 510(k) Class II clearance for its configurable disease-agnostic Software as a Medical Device platform, which includes the company’s cardiovascular risk score algorithm. The company, which received…
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When regulators speak, we listen.
Naturally risk-averse industries like the life sciences need health authority acceptance before trying new approaches and especially before committing to wholesale operational change, even if the outcome has great potential….
Researchers at NYU Langone Health developed NYUTron, a large language model (LLM) that predicts a patient’s risk of readmission and other clinical outcomes. The code for NYUTron is available on GitHub, allowing other healthcare…
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